John Arcudi
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John Arcudi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on The Mask and B.P.R.D. and his series Major Bummer.
Early life
Arcudi grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended Columbia University as an English major and developed an appreciation for the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Faulkner.[citation needed]
Career
Arcudi worked for Malibu Comics upon its founding in 1986, working on its Eternity line. That same year he started writing for comics, making his first sales to Savage Tales and Savage Sword of Conan for Marvel Comics, and becoming a regular contributor to the humor magazine Cracked.[volume and issue needed]
Arcudi worked on a number of comic books based on films, including RoboCop, Terminator, Predator, Alien, and The Thing. Two of these graphic works were subsequently adapted as full-length novels published by Bantam Books. Arcudi's series Barb Wire, featuring bounty hunter and bartendress Barbara Kopetski, was adapted into a film of the same name starring Pamela Anderson.
Arcudi also scripted several stories for Dark Horse Presents, such as the series "The Creep", and the police procedural "Homicide". Arcudi's comics crime fiction also includes several scripts for Batman: The Dark Knight and Batman: Black and White.[volume and issue needed]
For Dark Horse Comics, Arcudi worked on developing the second incarnation of the character The Mask first in Mayhem #1–4, and then in a series of books illustrated by Doug Mahnke. Arcudi's work formed the basis of the 1994 feature film starring Jim Carrey. He later also worked on the spin-off television series. Arcudi and later Mahnke teamed up for several projects following The Mask, including the DC Comics series Major Bummer, which focused on a group of ineffectual superheroes.
Arcudi also served as writer on the Wildstorm Productions series Gen13, illustrated by Gary Frank and Cam Smith, and during a run on DC's Doom Patrol, illustrated by Tan Eng Huat.
Arcudi invented the character Captain Daimio for the series B.P.R.D., which he writes with Mike Mignola. Arcudi had contributed a "B.P.R.D." story to the Hellboy comic issued in conjunction with the film as a premium from Wizard Entertainment. Arcudi later wrote a number of separate B.P.R.D. series.
Arcudi contributed the Superman story to Wednesday Comics. He also created a graphic novel called A God Somewhere with Peter Snejbjerg providing the art.
Aside from working in the comic media, Arcudi has also worked briefly in animation. He has written two episodes of The Mask: Animated Series, and one episode of the motion comics based on the comic Batman Black and White.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Comics
- Abe Sapien (with Mike Mignola) The Haunted Boy The Abyssal Plain #1–2 The Devil Does Not Jest #1–2 The New Race of Man #1–2 "Subconscious" published in Dark Horse Presents (2014) #11
- Aliens: Alchemy #1–3
- Aliens: Genocide #1–4
- Aliens: Stronghold #1–4
- Aquaman #25–29, 32–39
- Batman Black and White vol. 5 #6 (with James Harren)
- Batman: Gotham Nights #4, 7
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #162-63
- B.P.R.D. (with Mike Mignola) "Born Again" published in Hellboy: Premiere Edition The Dead #1–5 The Black Flame #1–6 The Universal Machine #1–5 Garden of Souls #1–5 Killing Ground #1–5 "Revival" published in MySpace Dark Horse Presents #8–9 War on Frogs #1–4 The Ectoplasmic Man "Out of Reach" published in Free Comic Book Day: Hellboy (2008) The Warning #1–5 The Black Goddess #1–5 King of Fear #1–5 Casualties 1948 #1–5
- B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth (with Mike Mignola) New World #1–5 Seattle Gods #1–3 Monsters #1–2 Russia #1–5 "An Unmarked Grave" published in Dark Horse Presents (2011) #8 The Long Death #1–3 The Devil's Engine #1–3 The Return of the Master #1–5 A Cold Day in Hell #1–2 Wasteland #1–3 Lake of Fire #1–5 The Reign of the Black Flame #1–5 The Devil's Wings #1–2 The Broken Equation #1–2 Grind Flesh and Stone #1–5 Nowhere, Nothing, Never #1–3 Modern Prometheus #1–2 End of Days #1–5 Cometh the Hour #1–5
- Barb Wire #1–8
- Baseball Greats #1: The Jimmy Piersall Story
- Brass #1–6
- The Creep #0–4
- Dark Horse Comics #1–7, 17–19
- Dark Horse Presents (1986) #23–29, 46, 48–49, 53–58, 60–61, 63–64, 115, 122–23, 146–49
- Dark Horse Presents (2011) #8, 11–13
- Dark Horse Presents (2014) #11, 19–21, 26
- Dark Horse Presents Annual 1997
- Dark Horse Presents: Aliens #1
- Doom Patrol, vol. 3, #1–22
- Excalibur #104, 105
- Flinch #12
- Gen 13, #25–40
- Gen 13: Carny Folk #1
- The Goon: Noir #2
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 #1–5
- Hellboy: Weird Tales #4—"Abe Sapien: Star of the B.P.R.D."
- Homicide #1
- Image+ (2017) #2
- Justice League of America: Destiny #1–4
- Justice League of America: Superpower #1
- Lobo/Mask #1–2 (with Alan Grant)
- Lobster Johnson (with Mike Mignola) The Burning Hand #1–5 The Prayer of Neferu Caput Mortuum Satan Smells a Rat A Scent of a Lotus #1–2 Get the Lobster #1–5 A Chain Forged in Life The Glass Mantis The Forgotten Man Metal Monsters of Midtown #1–3 Garden of Bones The Pirate's Ghost #1–3 Mangekyō
- The Machine #1–4
- Major Bummer #1–15
- Martian Manhunter, vol. 2 #5
- Mayhem #1–4
- The Mask #0–4
- The Mask Returns #1–4
- The Mask Strikes Back #1–5
- Motorhead #1
- MySpace Dark Horse Presents #6, 8–9, 12, 26
- Predator: Big Game #1–4
- RoboCop: Prime Suspect #1–4
- RoboCop: Roulette #1–4
- Rumble (2014) #1–15
- Rumble (2017) #1–17
- Savage Sword of Conan #150-52, 158, 165, 182
- Savage Tales, second series, #5, 7–8
- Silver Sable #26
- Sledgehammer 44 (with Mike Mignola) Sledgehammer 44 #1–2 Lightning War #1–3
- Solo #2, 6
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #38 (cover image only)
- Terminator #1–4
- The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #1–4
- Thunderbolts #76–81
- Total Carnage #1–4, 6–10
- Walter: Campaign of Terror #1–4
- Warlock and the Infinity Watch #34–35, 37–40, 42
- What if...? Vol. 2, #50
- Wednesday Comics #1–12 – Superman (writer), with art by Lee Bermejo. (2009)
- Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #1–5 (with Mike Mignola)
Graphic novels
- A God Somewhere with Peter Snejbjerg, published by WildStorm, June 2010, 200 pages, ISBN 978-1401226831 / ISBN 978-1401232467 (New edition)
Collections
| Title | Date | Publisher | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | November 1989 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569712085 |
| The Terminator: Tempest | September 1991 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574213 |
| Predator: Big Game | August 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711668 |
| Aliens: Genocide | December 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711231 |
| The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569710029 |
| The Mask | May 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574503 |
| The Thing from Another World and Climate of Fear | September 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574855 |
| Robocop: Prime Suspect | October 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574879 |
| The Mask Returns | August 1994 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569710210 |
| Barb Wire | January 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711392 |
| The Mask Strikes Back | June 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711682 |
| Aliens: Stronghold | July 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711545 |
| Decade | April 1997 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 9781569711798 |
| Gen 13: I Love New York | September 1999 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1563895432 |
| Scatterbrain | December 2001 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569714263 |
| Batman: Black & White – Volume 2 | October 2003 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1563899171 |
| Thunderbolts: How to Lose | November 2003 | Marvel Comics | ISBN 9780785112488 |
| Hellboy: Weird Tales – Volume 1 | December 2003 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569716229 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 4: The Dead | September 2005 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593073800 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 5: The Black Flame | July 2006 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593075507 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 6: The Universal Machine | January 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593077105 |
| Dwight T. Albatross's The Goon: Noir | July 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1401227470 |
| Aliens Omnibus – Volume 2 | December 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593078287 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 7: Garden of Souls | January 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593078829 |
| The Terminator Omnibus – Volume 1 | February 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079161 |
| Predator Omnibus – Volume 2 | February 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593077334 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 8: Killing Ground | May 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079567 |
| The Mask Omnibus – Volume 1 | August 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079277 |
| Barb Wire Omnibus | August 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079932 |
| MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | September 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079987 |
| Aliens Omnibus – Volume 5 | October 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079918 |
| MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595822482 |
| The Mask Omnibus – Volume 2 | March 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079376 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 10: The Warning | April 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595823045 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 11: The Black Flame | October 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595824110 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 12: War on Frogs | April 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595824806 |
| Wednesday Comics | June 2010 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1593077853 |
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 14: King of Fear | November 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595825643 |
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 2 (omnibus) | August 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595826725 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 1: New World | August 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827074 |
| B.P.R.D.: Being Human | November 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827562 |
| Witchfinder – Volume 2: Lost and Gone Forever | January 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827944 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 2: Gods and Monster | January 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595828224 |
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 3 (omnibus) | March 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595828606 |
| Abe Sapien – Volume 2: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories | April 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829252 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 3: Russia | August 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829467 |
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 4 (omnibus) | November 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829740 |
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 2: The Burning Hand | November 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616550318 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 4: The Devil's Engine & The Long Death | December 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829818 |
| The Creep | April 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616550615 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 6: The Return of the Master | August 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551933 |
| B.P.R.D.: 1948 | September 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551834 |
| Abe Sapien – Volume 3: Dark and Terrible and The New Race of Man | December 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616552848 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 7: A Cold Day in Hell | January 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551995 |
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 3: Satan Smells a Rat | February 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616552039 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 8: Lake of Fire | April 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616554026 |
| Sledgehammer 44 – Volume 1 | May 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616553951 |
| Batman: Black & White – Volume 4 | July 2014 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1401246433 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 9: The Reign of the Black Flame | September 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616554712 |
| Hellboy: Weird Tales (omnibus) | November 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616555108 |
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 4: Get the Lobster! | December 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616555054 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 10: The Devil's Wings | March 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556174 |
| B.P.R.D.: 1946–1948 (omnibus) | June 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556464 |
| Rumble – Volume 1: What Color of Darkness? | June 2015 | Image Comics | ISBN 978-1632153838 |
| Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 | August 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556600 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 11: Flesh and Stone | September 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557621 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 12: Metamorphosis | December 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557942 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: Metamorphosis | December 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557942 |
| Rumble – Volume 2: A Woe That Is Madness | February 2016 | Image Comics | ISBN 978-1632156044 |
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: End of Days | May 2016 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616559106 |
Magazines
- Cracked (1987)
- Monsters Attack! (1989)
- The Comics Journal (Winter 2003 Special Edition)
Notes
- at the Grand Comics Database
External links
- at the Comic Book DB (archived from )
- Warmoth, Brian (March 13, 2007). . WizardUniverse.com. Archived from on October 20, 2007.